The rain gradually became heavier, and the huge raindrops hit the tiles of the church's dome hard. The giant clock was hidden in the hazy rain curtain, and the hands were swinging in an unknown direction.
The wooden door of the attic was pushed open and creaked, revealing a thin figure holding a black umbrella in his hand. He put the umbrella away, placed it at the door, and walked into the narrow attic.
"Hello principal, hello vice principal." Lu Mingfei waved to Angers and a fat uncle in the corner.
"Hey, Mingfei, you're here!" The fat uncle was sitting on the bed, facing Ange on the single sofa. He was holding a bottle of whiskey and waved enthusiastically to Lu Mingfei, like a hospitable western old man.
cowboy.
The Night Watchman, the vice-principal of Kassel College, is also a hidden figure in the college. This narrow attic is his...nest.
The night watchman has been living here for decades, like an old dog lying dormant. The sunny side of this dirty attic is entirely covered with folding glass windows, but there are no curtains because the dirty glass has long been lowered.
The posters of the busty girls were so tightly pasted that no light could get in even during the day.
Empty wine bottles and used toilet paper were thrown all over the floor. The DVDs on the bookshelf were half westerns and half action movies. Adult magazines were almost piled at the foot of the bed, some were scattered on the floor. The cover and title page illustrated a Cuban girl.
They were so large that even the few remaining pieces of fabric were omitted, and the air exuded a strong youthful atmosphere, which was a bit pungent.
"Hey, it's just the principal and vice-principal, okay? Are you okay, senior brother?" The burly figure squatting at the foot of the bed, flipping through an adult magazine, poked his head out, and with great reluctance, the big face looked away from the bodybuilding girl in the magazine.
He opened the door and looked at Lu Mingfei with a resentful tone.
Lu Mingfei rolled his eyes at the other party. He didn't expect this guy to be here. He thought this conversation would be very private.
"I called Fingel here. He can come in handy for this matter," Angers explained.
"It's not that I mind that Senior Brother Fingel is here, the main thing is, does he understand the ins and outs of this matter?" Lu Mingfei asked.
"Junior brother, who do you think your senior brother is? Can there be a paparazzi in Kassel College who is better informed than me?" Fingel raised his eyebrows. He never accepts doubts about his professional ability.
"It's about Chu Zihang's privacy, so we have to be cautious. Senior brother, forget about your usual nonsense about my relationship with Chu Zihang. You can't make random jokes about this matter!" Lu Mingfei reminded.
"Don't worry, don't worry, your senior brother, I have the tightest mouth!" Fingel pursed his lips tightly and made a sealing gesture.
"I'll trust you once." Lu Mingfei squinted at Fingel, who took out a recording pen and placed it on the desk where there was almost no room.
The night watchman connected the recording pen to the speaker, and a "rustling" current noise flowed through the loudspeaker. Everyone listened unconsciously. After the noise, two voices appeared, one was Lu Mingfei's voice, which was normal, and the other was a male voice.
It's surprisingly low and hoarse, like a dream.
"Teacher...Chu Zihang, you have used the name 'Lu Mang' before, right?"
"Yes...my mother's...new husband gave it to me...but I refused."
"What's the reason for rejection? Don't you like the name 'Lumang'?"
"Dad... doesn't like it."
"Where's your dad?"
"I lost him..."
"Where did you lose it? Describe it as carefully as possible."
"Five years ago...a typhoon day...an elevated road...it was raining heavily...the car was going very fast...it seemed like it would never reach the finish line..."
"What else? Apart from typhoons and heavy rain, is there anything else on that elevated road?"
"Shadows...countless black shadows...hidden in the rain...golden eyes..."
"Apart from those black shadows? Is there anything else? Think carefully about that thing standing at the end of the road? You saw it, right? His appearance has always been engraved in your mind. What kind of guy is that?"
The smooth question and answer stopped, and the voice of the person being questioned seemed to be strangled in his throat. After swallowing a few strange notes, there was a distorted sound, as if someone was pulling the steel and twisting it hard.
, the sound of friction between metals filled the entire black room, stinging the eardrums.
The friction sound was also mixed with the sound of heavy breathing, like the lungs of a huge creature opening and closing. The sound of rain was majestic. The heavy rain was like a protective smock. It seemed that there was some monster hidden inside, and it would rush out of the darkness in the next moment.
Come.
The night watchman and Fingel looked at each other, their tongues licking their lips fiercely, their eyes gleaming with fear but excitement. It felt like they were playing some horror game, waiting for something to suddenly appear in the darkness.
You can use the shotgun in your hand to explode the monster's head, which is thrilling and exciting!
"Neighing... eight-legged horse... curved... Kungunir... and... and more!" The deep voice suddenly became sharp, as if being involved in the chaotic memory again, that
The rainy night that covered the sky came again.
"Don't be afraid, Chu Zihang, there is no need to be afraid, just say it. All I need is you to tell me who he is. What else did you see?"
"Dark gold armor...dark blue cloak...golden pupils...one eye..."
"Odin! I saw...a god!"
The conversation ended here. The heavy breathing, the endless sound of rain and the sound of twisting steel all stopped abruptly. It was as if someone had suddenly unplugged the power supply in the middle of the movie, and it was pitch black. The rustling sound of electricity once again filled the crowded place.
in the attic.
No one made a sound, whether it was Angers, the night watchman or Fingel, they were all waiting quietly at this time, as if they had just read the climax of the story and were abruptly cut off, with the story still unfinished.
"That's it." Lu Mingfei pulled out the recorder from the audio cable and crushed it in front of everyone, "This is after I finished talking about bloodshed with my senior brother, I hypnotized him while he was asleep.
An hour ago, Natsumi was not there at that time, and it happened to be raining heavily outside the window. The situation was very similar to that night. Teacher Masashi Toyama said that hypnosis in a familiar environment can more smoothly guide the other party to reveal the truth.
"
The night watchman and Angers exchanged a look of surprise and whispered: "Who did he last say he saw?"
"You are not deaf. I also heard that name. He said that he met the legendary King of the Gods of the Arthur Clan, Odin, on the elevated road of a small coastal town." Angers nodded and lit a cigarette.
Cigar, this old man is used to thinking in the smoke.
"Listen to his description, what do you think those black shadows with golden eyes are?" The night watchman frowned.
"Deadpool, I can't think of anything other than this thing that can chase a Maybach with full accelerator on a rainy night." Angers took a deep breath and exhaled the smoke.
"What is the connection between Odin and Deadpool? The god-king is the embodiment of justice in Norse mythology. He should bring beautiful Valkyries with him when he appears, but Deadpool is the product of a dragon hybrid. As we all know, Odin and
The ancestor of the Deadpools, the Black Dragon Emperor, they are mortal enemies!" The night watchman frowned, "Did he have a nightmare, or was he hypnotized? Just like the Japanese named Toyama Masashi.
Is it like brainwashing children who have been dropped out of school?"
"It does sound like a made-up story, but in 'Hypnosis', no one will lie, and the Maybach that crashed was found by us in the wasteland outside the city." Angers said from his suit.
He took out a black and white photo from the mezzanine and placed it on the table.
Fingel leaned over to take a look, but his big head was pushed away by the night watchman. The night watchman grabbed the photo and looked at it carefully, not wanting to miss any detail.
"The location where we found it is fifteen kilometers away from the nearest elevated road. There is only a rut around it. After comparison, it is the tire mark of this Maybach. It drove there by itself. The fingerprint on the steering wheel is only Chuzi's.
Hang and his father, there is no third person." Angers said softly.
"It's probably because they drank too much and went racing in a hurry. The alcohol and high speed paralyzed the brain and caused hallucinations. This is normal!" Fingel muttered.
"No, that's not right!" the night watchman suddenly exclaimed. He pointed at the four very similar dents on the roof and front cover of the Maybach and asked, "What is this?"
"The body of the Maybach was very badly damaged. It was scorched black by the huge voltage of electricity and has been scrapped. The four grooves on the roof and front cover are conclusive evidence. It directly proves that Chu Zihang did see what he saw.
It's incredible, we did a comparison and analysis... these are four huge horse hoof prints!" Angers exhaled a puff of smoke.
"Odin's throne, Sleipnir, is an eight-legged horse. When it charges, it will hold thunder in its mouth and roar. It will shoot out lightning from its nostrils, raise its majestic four hooves, and strike hard at the enemy.
Stampede!" The night watchman took a swig of whiskey with each sentence.
The wine has been finished and he is licking the ice cubes in the bottle.
"The chaos and incredibleness he saw were all real, because he broke into that place..." Ange's eyes flashed with a strange light.
"Hey, you're bluffing!" The night watchman jumped up from the bed. His fat body shocked the entire attic. The flesh of his belly was exposed, trembling like waves, "The Kingdom of the Dead."
?Nibelungen? Alchemists have spent centuries trying to find it, and I doubt it even exists."
"It exists." Lu Mingfei's voice suddenly interrupted, and the night watchman looked into his eyes.
"My senior brother and I went to Nibelungen. There was a bronze city under the Yangtze River. It was Norton's palace. The internal space inside was folded infinitely, so big that it seemed to have no end." Lu Mingfei said.
"Fingel, have you ever been to a place like this?" The night watchman glanced at Fingel, who was sticking his butt out and continuing to read an adult magazine.
"What, I'm talking about Brother Killer, not Brother Useless." Lu Mingfei scratched his head.
"So, Chu Zihang has already been to two Nibelungs? Tsk, tsk, tsk, how enviable!" The night watchman smacked his lips, and his tone was as if Chu Zihang had picked up the two Cuban girls with the biggest breasts.
Same.
"I don't understand what you alchemists think. What is there to long for in the land of the dead? There are neither beauties nor beasts there. Are there any living things there?" Angers rolled his eyes.
"You know what the heck, you people who are into science will never have a common language with those of us who study mysticism. The country of the dead is not a cavity like 'netherworld' or 'hell'. It is what all alchemists dream of."
Holy land, there are treasures everywhere!" The night watchman sneered at Angers's eyes.
"Treasure? You mean there are adult magazines and posters of low-cut girls everywhere?" Angers looked around at the "treasures" that the night watchman had piled up all over the room.
"Hey, Angers, you old guy is not destined to be an alchemist!" Everyone cursed secretly, "The reason why the Nibelungen is called the 'country of the dead' is because it is full of dead matter.
The water does not flow, the fire there has no temperature, the land and mountains there are all bronze, the metals and earth that make up the world are also dead elements, there is no day and night, and half-darkness and half-light are always floating in the sky.
The light, the city is entirely made of dead dragon bones, which are enriched with the fifth element 'spirit', and the whole world is filled with the legendary substance that can kill the Dragon King - the 'Philosopher's Stone'!"
"These are all contents in Nordic mythology, right? The Black Dragon Emperor guards the door of the Kingdom of the Dead and bites the World Tree. Odin regards him as a thorn in his side." Angers said softly, "Until the day the World Tree collapses, all the
When the divine twilight falls, the sea opens, ships made of dead men's nails break out of the sea, and the undead army attacks the living."
"Although it is the content of myths, it does not mean that these are fictions." The night watchman said solemnly, "Although we have not found the remains of the dragon tribe over the years, especially in the era when Nidhogg ruled in the name of God.
The ruins, but the Black Emperor and the Dragon King are real, and now Odin has appeared, no one knows what it is."
"Perhaps he is a certain dragon king?" Ange pondered.
"If... I mean if, is it possible that Odin was the previous ruler of the Black Dragon Emperor?" Lu Mingfei suddenly spoke up, and everyone looked at him.
"Odin was kicked off the altar by the Black Dragon Emperor, so they are old enemies? What if there was a civilization before the dragon civilization? A civilization headed by Odin...like a god's civilization? I once discovered it in the Great Mother's Sands
A ruin that dates back to long before human civilization, but it doesn’t use dragon script. It’s like a third type of civilization that is beyond human and dragon civilization?”
Lu Mingfei kept silent, and the night watchman was dumbfounded. Ange's face was hidden in the smoke and his expression could not be seen clearly. He pondered for a long time, "This topic is very meaningful! From the day you reported it, Zengmu Ansha
I sent people to monitor the ruins throughout the year...but this is not our top priority."
"Then what is our top priority?" The night watchman took out a new bottle of whiskey.
"In two days, the investigation team of the school board will arrive at the college. They probably intend to fire me as the principal, and then imprison me until death." Angers flicked the cigarette butt and said calmly.